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...least, liked to read about wars. Rubbish, said Miss Geweke. There was adventure and glamor in the Aeneid ("It contains an exciting love affair"). It was a masterpiece, "the most balanced work in all Latin literature." And it was certainly no harder than Caesar, with his long, closely knit sentences, his use of subjunctives, indirect discourse and the historical present. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (she is chairman of its educational policies committee) backed her up, and the American Council of Learned Societies gave her $7,500 to prove her point...
Sybil Kathigasu was flown to Britain, where the King gave her the George Medal for civilian heroism. Ten operations failed to knit together her broken body. During two years, in & out of British hospitals, she laboriously wrote her story, to be published under her underground code name, "Sab." "The world must know what kind of people these Japanese are," said Sybil. "Already memories are growing short...
...hour play to 2½ hours, eliminated such roles as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, transposed speeches or even whole scenes as he found necessary. He called the result an "essay on Hamlet" The Manchester Guardian called it "a film which is much more closely knit and, indeed, much more dramatic than any stage Hamlet...
...Berke, captain of the '51 swimming team, has more than equalled Smith's performance. Key man on a well knit team, Berke came to the College a first rate backstroker...
Democratic defeat. The fact was that the Democrats had fallen on their faces when they had every reason, and every precedent, for staying on their feet. They had tripped, almost absentmindedly, over Henry Wallace's highly emotional appeal to the very poor, the huddled minorities, and the tightly knit Communists...